Follow the money....
It’s all about the money, Jim.
Hoodie response required here...
Need redlight and speed trap camera “necklacing” like they practice in the UK. Make it cost prohibitive and painful.
In getting a carried away this morning.
...blaming the mimosas
I guess the lawyers in Texas got red light cameras banned because they make much more money defending folks that run red lights and kill other folks.
It’s a racket. A red light camera company came into Atlanta, first thing they did was to get the city to lower the time the yellow lights stayed on. If you’re 10 feet from an intersection, and the light goes to yellow, you can’t stop in time and you can’t cross the intersection before the light turns red. Traffic tickets soared at red lights.
The state legislature got involved and mandated yellow lights remain yellow throughout the state for a minimum of 4 seconds. The number of red light tickets in Atlanta dropped by 80%. Solid evidence the company wasn’t really catching people intent on running red lights, but just trapping innocent drivers.
Fwiw, “red light cameras” are ONLY about MAKING MONEY. = I’ve PAID 2 “red light tickets” in Plano, TX & in neither case did I run the red light.- In both cases, I had to stop IN the intersection due to oncoming traffic.
(Plano made it VERY INCONVENIENT to contest a ticket & TARGETED “out of town” vehicles more than “locals”.)
This is WHY Texas has outlawed “red light cameras”.
Yours, TMN78247